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Ericsson and Supermicro advance Enterprise Connectivity for edge AI systems

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 10, 2025 by itnerd

Ericsson and Supermicro today announced an intent to engage in a strategic collaboration to accelerate Edge AI deployment. The parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the combination of Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions’ industry-leading 5G connectivity with Supermicro’s industry-leading Edge AI platforms into commercial bundles that will:

  • Deliver advanced Edge AI capabilities that leverage 5G network connectivity as a key value-add attribute
  • Simplify procurement and deployment with a unified solution with pre-validated AI compute and 5G connectivity

As AI becomes integrated into a wide range of business functions, many of those AI applications require low-latency response times. This development is leading to a demand for Edge AI solutions that deploy pre-trained AI models, generative AI, and agentic AI to the network edge, outside the data centre, for local processing. The combination of Supermicro and Ericsson technology is intended to enable businesses in retail, factories, health care, and others to rapidly deploy Edge AI infrastructure together with wireless connectivity.

Supermicro continues to expand its extensive portfolio of infrastructure products supporting Edge AI applications with product choices ranging from small fanless devices to shoe-box sized systems to 1U rackmount systems. These new stand-alone wireless systems can be deployed in diverse environments yet deliver industry-standard data throughput comparable to wired systems.

Ericsson’s wireless WAN portfolio of indoor and outdoor low-and-mid band wireless adapters and their 5G, SD-WAN, and security appliances are critical components for an enterprise when traditional wired connectivity may be inconvenient or even unavailable for some of these edge deployments. In these situations, 5G can serve as the primary WAN connection or even as a backup WAN connection for business-critical deployments. With Ericsson’s solution, enterprises will also be able to take advantage of 5G functionality including network slicing, cellular intelligence, and zero trust security.

Specific industry applications include:

  • Retail: Accelerate checkout processing through real-time image recognition of items, enhance inventory tracking, and detect and alert against theft.
  • Smart Factory and Industrial Automation: Monitor and control industrial machinery by locally processing sensor and camera data.  
  • Traffic Safety: Enhance traffic safety by data analysis directly from camera and sensor sources for adaptive real-time traffic management. 
  • Healthcare Management: Support healthcare operations such as just-in-time inventory management to reduce waste and ensure critical medical supplies are available.

Enterprise customers and system integrators can learn more by visiting the Supermicro booth # P10, Pavillion 7 at NVIDIA GTC Paris, June 11-12, 2025 or by visiting https://supermicro.com/en/solutions/ericsson for further solution and product details.

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#PSA: If You Have An Intel Mac, It’s Time To Replace It With An Apple Silicon One

Posted in Commentary with tags on June 10, 2025 by itnerd

Frequent readers of this blog will know that I’ve been saying for a while that if you own a Intel powered Mac, you should invest in an Apple Silicon one sooner rather than later. I’ve said this in 2023, 2024, and just recently. Now Apple has seemingly put the final nail in the coffin of Intel Macs by announcing that macOS Tahoe which was previewed yesterday at WWDC is going to be the last version of macOS for Intel Macs.

Now Intel Macs will continue to get critical security updates. How long they get those updates is an open question. But there will be zero new features for Intel Macs. And what often happens is that third party developers will stop developing software for Intel macs. Maybe not instantly, but that will happen.

So if you own an Intel Mac, now is the time to make the move to an Apple Silicon Mac. I say now because I predict that a lot of people will ignore this and then be caught out in some way when an app that they need won’t work or something like that. You don’t want to be in the position of having to “panic buy” a Mac, so planning out your transition to Apple Silicon now is the way to go.

Consider yourself warned.

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Xona and Forescout Partner to Deliver Secure Remote Access and OT Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure

Posted in Commentary with tags , on June 10, 2025 by itnerd

Xona, the leading provider of secure access for critical infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with Forescout Technologies, a global cybersecurity leader. The integration between the Xona Platform and the Forescout 4D Platform™ will give industrial and critical infrastructure operators secure, policy-enforced access to operational systems, backed by continuous network visibility and automated enforcement.

As threats to industrial control systems intensify and compliance requirements become more demanding, the integration of Forescout’s continuous device visibility, intelligence, and control with Xona’s secure remote access capabilities enables operators to modernize security without compromising uptime, safety, or regulatory posture. This partnership ensures that every user and device interaction is authenticated, authorized, and audited—delivering secure, compliant, and uninterrupted operations across critical infrastructure.

Better Together: Unified Access, Visibility, and Control

The best of breed platforms combine the unique strengths of both organizations:

  • Zero-Trust Access with Reduced Operational Complexity: Xona delivers secure, browser-based access to critical systems without requiring VPNs, clients, or network tunnels. When paired with Forescout’s real-time asset discovery, security teams can dynamically identify and import assets to configure identity-level controls. This ensures users only access authorized assets and systems, when they’re authorized to access them.
  • Context-Aware Policy Enforcement: Forescout’s dynamic risk scoring and segmentation logic automatically influence access permissions and session behavior inside Xona. High-risk assets can be isolated, and user access can be denied or revoked in real time, preventing lateral movement and enforcing least privilege access across the OT environment.
  • Built-In Compliance and Session Auditing: Xona’s high-fidelity session recording, file transfer governance, and policy-based controls are now enriched with live network telemetry from Forescout, simplifying audit prep for standards like NERC CIP, IEC 62443, TSA SD2, and OTCC-1. Every session is visible, controlled, and accounted for.
  • Secure Vendor and Third-Party Access Without Exposure: Together, Xona and Forescout eliminate the traditional blind spots around remote access. Contractors, OEMs, and internal users can gain time-limited access with full oversight, without ever exposing underlying network layers or requiring standing credentials.

This integration is purpose-built to support energy and utilities, oil and gas, water, transportation and logistics, and healthcare organizations to drive operational resilience.

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